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Pakistan's security environment is rapidly changing, numerous ideological, ethnic and confessional conflicts are emerging that can rapidly destabilize, even isolate Pakistan's traditional threat assessment framework. The Prime Ministers inability to influence or contribute to King Salaman portends to embody a 'perfect storm' for Islamabad.

Q1. What concrete resources can Army leadership field to preserve its regional interests in a rapidly changing environment.

Q2. The I.M.F. assessment of Pakistan's weak and faltering political economy mired in intransigent reform contributes to Pakistan's social, political instability. Is the Army ready to permit civilian supremacy & reform, whose strength can contribute to State resources helping leadership address growing subnational, regional conflicts that could envelop Islamabad.

Q3. What policy can Islamabad field to counter a rapidly militant column of indigenous Shia favorable to Teheran.

Q4. A new patron in Beijing portends that Pakistan seeks to prevent isolation, what role does Beijing play for Islamabad's security interests.

The paradox of Russian Civilization begs for clarity & resolution: Russian foreign policy has historically been informed by its geographic vastness, however, contemporary technological developments eliminate the dominant role geography, effectively elevating the nature of the political regime to primacy.

Wikistrat's Senior South Asian Policy Analyst, Former Directorate of Naval Operations New Delhi on scale & character of India's rescue operations for numerous Nationals moving west from Yemeni capital of Sanaa under heavy bombardment from Riyadh.